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What I like to do is run the game for about five years, then expand and takeover an expansion team. That way it's grounded in the real life players but it quickly becomes a fictional league.

The last time I did it I added an additional challenge/fictionalizatuon for myself: my new expansion team wasn't allowed to select/employ any real players, just fictional ones that had been created over the years that I'd skipped. Very difficult at first.